Monday, April 28, 2008

Acts have been announced for the Dance and Lock Up stages at Reading/Leeds. The Dance Stage (Sunday) will host: CSS, Digitalism, Simian Mobile Disco, Chromeo, Crystal Castles, Lethal Bizzle, Holy Fuck, The Whip, Robots In Disguise, The Death Set, The Shoes

The Lock Up Stage again runs for two days (Friday and Saturday at Reading) and sees appearances by:Friday:Less Than Jake, Pennywise, Goldfinger, The Unseen, H2O, Frank Turner, The Loved Ones, Hexes

Monday, April 14, 2008

Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher has slated the decision to book Jay-Z as a headliner at Glastonbury, claiming the decision is the cause of slow ticket sales for this year's festival. The singer said "If it ain't broke don't fix it," he said. "If you start to break it then people aren't going to go. I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance. Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music and even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night you go 'Kylie Minogue?' I don't know about it. But I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong."

However, a more likely cause is that there are simply so many festivals these days that music fans are spoilt for choice. And Glastonbury is getting so big now that over-crowding could be part of the problem. One artist seems unlikely to be the cause of people not buying tickets - with several hundred act to choose from you can always see someone else, rather than the main stage headliner.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Over at www.livemetallica.com you can download Metallica's 1985 Donington Monsters Of Rock set free of charge. It's free to sign up at the site and there's a good selection of free downloads from 1982-2003. Here's the full list of freebies: